A system of thought that organises the world through prediction, observation and experimentation. Scientific truths are provisional and can always be falsified.
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Does studying mathematics or science lead to a practitioner of Buddhism acquiring wrong philosophical views and mental afflictions?
Among the steps needed to attain enlightenment, a practitioner of Buddhism needs to abandon the wrong philosophical views that they acquired due to either wrong teaching or wrong study. In this sense, a practitioner that is less educated need only…
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Can one practice meditation to gain knowledge about the universe?
The Buddha knows everything in this universe via his mind alone. Can I do the same? I want to know what is inside a black hole.
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Is our mind faster than light?
Here is what I have been told by some Thai followers:
The sun's light takes 8 minutes to reach the Earth, but our mind can think of the sun or even of distant stars instantly. That is to say, our mind is faster than the speed of light. They claim…
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What are sariras (scientifically seen)?
What are sariras (Tibetan: ringsels)?
I have seen those small crystal 'pearls' (exposed in bottles) at several (even small) monasteries in SE Asia. These relics remain (are found in the ashes) after the cremation of the body of (high appreciated)…
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If physical action causes reaction, doesn't mental action cause reaction too?
For example, Newton's third law is that if a body acts another body, so the other body reacts to the acting body.
Now consider a mental action, for example one person who loves another person: that action doesn't always cause a reaction, the other…
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What is the Buddhist attitude towards cosmology?
In Majjhima Nikaya 63, the Buddha says
So, Malunkyaputta, remember what is undeclared by me as undeclared, and what is declared by me as declared. And what is undeclared by me? 'The cosmos is eternal,' is undeclared by me. 'The cosmos is not…
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Do flying monks described in Buddhist texts contradict with physics?
So the Buddhist texts must be stating something incorrectly since we now know that we can't fly without the help of technology. How could they fly then?
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Does Yogacara deny atoms exist or does it just say that atoms are just appearances?
Vasubandhu seems to make arguments in this article against the concept of atoms to prove all is appearance in consciousness. But doesn't this go against modern science,even if his arguments are logical? I mean modern science says that atoms exist.
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Memories of previous lives
I think I have to tolerate memories of previous lives. And I know many of which memories are combination of true and false memories.Part of the memories are scientifically superimposed by army or any research department of the government.It is…
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Buddha's knowledge of prior births
Did Budhdha really got to know his previous births
....or was it just mind hallucinating because of hunger, thirst?
I don't mean any disrespect
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What if God created the universe but the Buddha just discovered how it works?
Just like God created The Sims game and the Buddha as a character in it happened to discover how it works by somehow hacking into the program, perhaps by meditation?
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